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Wawa Employee Stabs Knife-Wielding Man Who Jumped Over Counter Angry About Long Wait, Philadelphia Police Say
CBS3 ^ | 8/13/2021

Posted on 08/14/2021 11:05:38 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

Police are investigating a stabbing inside a West Mount Airy Wawa. They say it started because of a disgruntled customer. It happened at the store located on the 7200 block of Germantown Avenue around 10:30 p.m. Thursday.

Police say an employee was unpacking boxes when a male customer began yelling and then punched and choked the employee because he wasn’t being served.

When the man tried to go around the counter with a knife, investigators say the employee pulled out his own knife, stabbing the suspect.

“That’s crazy, especially when you coming to work the normal shift and you have to fight somebody off. That’s insane,” a customer told Eyewitness News.

Wawa customers say they’re extremely troubled by growing violence in the city.

“It is every day. No matter where you go, you are constantly looking over your shoulder,” Brian Hart, who lives in Port Richmond, said. “It is just, you know, not really safe place to live anymore, I don’t think.”

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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: knifefight; notaknifefight; notfloridaman; pennsylvania; philadelphia; stabbing; wawa; westmountairy
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

When I was a kid it was either the pig or food giant and you got green stamps too


21 posted on 08/14/2021 11:32:18 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"NOTHING holds a candle to the “Piggly Wiggly.” Best supermarket name ever, bar none."

There used to be a supermarket called Super Duper where I grew up. Not quite as good as Piggly Wiggly but pretty good.

22 posted on 08/14/2021 11:35:18 AM PDT by Neanderthal (The Devil walks with Democrats)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

I’ve been to many wawas up in that area. Slow service is an understatement. I seen snails move past the line faster. Surprised it took this long for a customer to snap!


23 posted on 08/14/2021 11:36:33 AM PDT by Deepeasttx ( Sensitivity/diversity training sessions are just reeducation camps without walls....for now.)
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To: Robert DeLong

It used to be a nice area until the Methodists moved in.


24 posted on 08/14/2021 11:37:48 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

25 posted on 08/14/2021 11:41:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Never bring a wawa to a wawa fight?


26 posted on 08/14/2021 11:41:44 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Drew68

I used to wonder when I was a teenager why anyone would name a convenience store chain after an electric guitar effects pedal . . .


27 posted on 08/14/2021 11:42:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The Wawas around here are packed on a consistent basis. As the company has opened stores in more ahem, “urban” neighborhoods, they get the shootings and killings that go along with it.


28 posted on 08/14/2021 11:42:48 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

29 posted on 08/14/2021 11:45:36 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Dude was feeling “dissed” and that set him on edge.


30 posted on 08/14/2021 11:46:53 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

> NOTHING holds a candle to the “Piggly Wiggly.” Best supermarket name ever, bar none.

And inexpensive as well!!


31 posted on 08/14/2021 11:46:56 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: cgbg

The Philly ‘tards will STILL vote the “D” no matter what. Port Richmond saw a good portion of BLM/Antifa violence and destruction and now see the barbarism from the typical Philly sh*tholes.


32 posted on 08/14/2021 11:47:30 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: dfwgator

Good one.


33 posted on 08/14/2021 12:11:50 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

What is “Wawa”?


Where I live in central western NJ, Wawa is the schnizzle. Great convenience store, clean, and the made to order items are solid as hell every time.


34 posted on 08/14/2021 12:23:39 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach onre)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Is it just me or do cashiers just take their sweet time no matter how long the checkout line is, when it used to be that a good cashier would step it up a little in order to keep things moving at a reasonable pace? I’m sick of having to adapt to retail, etc. business employees and their ever-expanding comfort zones! Come on, man, get the lead out!


35 posted on 08/14/2021 12:39:11 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: shanover

The system is so entrenched that it wouldn’t matter if Philly voters were to vote overwhelmingly R in an election. The final count would still register D and the election officials may not even realize that the real vote was R.


36 posted on 08/14/2021 12:50:09 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe V)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Wawa customers say they’re extremely troubled by growing violence in the city.

Are they troubled by the 800,000 plus mystery mail in ballots that were dropped off at 4 am the morning after November's election?

37 posted on 08/14/2021 12:55:54 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: 2banana; Albion Wilde; Antoninus; big truck; brityank; bt-99; ConorMacNessa; cowboyusa; ...

*** Philly Metro Ping ***


38 posted on 08/14/2021 1:11:55 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“NOTHING holds a candle to the “Piggly Wiggly.” Best supermarket name ever, bar none.”

PW was also the first modern supermarket with the stock arranged on shelves for shoppers to browse through. At the time other stored would take your list, fill the basket you brought with you and off you went.

PW also invented the shopping basket. Owner Clarence Saunders noted that women would shop until their hand baskets got full and would stop.
He took some hand baskets, attached wheels and push handles and set them at the entrance to the store. When women didn’t use them he hired women to “shop” using the wheeled baskets. When they still didn’t catch on he paid young doctors to stand outside and extoll the health benefits of the wheeled baskets. Their use took off and women bought MORE at one time than they previously had.

PW also was the first to pricemark each item, the first to have clerks in uniforms and the originator of the supermarket franchise model.

https://www.southernliving.com/culture/piggly-wiggly-history#:~:text=When%20Piggly%20Wiggly%20opened%20its%20doors%20in%20Memphis%2C,hand%20shoppers%20a%20bag%20full%20of%20their%20items.


39 posted on 08/14/2021 1:13:12 PM PDT by oldvirginian (I’m getting tired of being part of a major historical event.)
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To: Drew68

Best coffee best customer service. Wawa is native American for Canadian Geese hence their logo, and the first store was in the town of Wawa.

Privately owned, no franchises, not on the stock market.

If they open any nearby 7 Eleven is finished.


40 posted on 08/14/2021 1:18:31 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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